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The pistol in Human Revolution can become this with the right weapon mods and cybernetic augmentations.

This means you have to be able to actually see the laser dot on your target to be accurate, and eliminates the 150 yard precision accurate kills that were achievable prior to this.

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The Shifter Mod fixes this, making the laser account for your character's hand sway.

Combine this with the fact that the game's starter pistol does 1-hit kill headshots and you've got a Game Breaker.

Due to a bug, if you attach only a laser sight but no scope to your pistol, it will be 100% accurate at any range as long as you're standing still.

Master-skill-level pistolwork is cheaper (thus earlier) to reach than master-level riflery, but the damage (and range) limits will hurt later in the game.

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Plus you could fit a scope and laser sight on it.

The pistols in Deus Ex are very accurate if you put enough skill points into using them, but their damage is lower than other weapons.

Also, a zoom script can be a game-winning combination.

In Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, a revolver can be used on a sniping map.

In Half-Life 2, not necessarily the first pistol (for lack of accuracy), but as soon as you get the revolver. Since it's the most powerful pistol in the game, it fits this well as accurately-aimed shots can be one-shot kills.

The Nintendo 64 adaptation of The World Is Not Enough gives you a Colt Anaconda which is equipped with a scope.

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So, you can nail a kill from across the entire map with a revolver by hitting someone who just spawned at full health in the foot. Said revolver, along with the revolvers from World at War onwards and the Desert Eagle from the Modern Warfare games, will kill a player in a single shot regardless of the range to the target or where you hit them, with perfect accuracy, if you're playing on a hardcore server/playlist.Taken to its logical conclusion in Call of Duty Black Ops, where in multiplayer you have the option of attaching a scope to the revolver.Of course, the generally smaller maps in it made it a bit more justifiable. Of course, it's not really as hard-hitting as an actual sniper rifle. If you're out of ammo and one kill short of a chopper, pull out your pistol and snipe. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, same thing.They are rather shameless about this trope in this game - there's an achievement for taking out high-value target with a pistol shot when you'd normally be doing it with the scoped Sniper Rifle you have.It is often possible to shoot AND KILL the sniper who hits you from halfway across a BIG map while lying down in Second Chance position, unable to move and equipped only with a pistol. Of course, in an era where headshots didn't exist, this was rarely a viable tactic for killing anything but zombies and imps. If you pause for about a second in between each pistol or chaingun shot, it will have perfect accuracy.

In Real Life, accurately shooting a handgun, regardless which type of scope is used, is incredibly difficult and takes a lot of training to master, much more compared to a rifle or carbine. This is likely a way to work around the limitations of Hit Scan. It's often possible to get the same effect from an automatic if it has the option to switch to single-shot mode (or sometimes it will have the exact same accuracy, which makes even less sense). Weapons with low damage but high firing rates, such as machine guns, will therefore be hard to aim accurately, while slower firing and more powerful single shot weapons, such as pistols, will be more effective at range so long as you take the time to line up each shot. Therefore, carefully lining up the first shot always results in a hit, even if the subsequent shots go wide. Rather than have the bullets deviate from the cross-hair, the weapon always shoots where it is aimed, but each shot causes your aim to shift. In many cases, this is due to accuracy being determined by recoil, along with no realistic damage/bullet drop. Sometimes it's possible to pre-aim with a sniper scope, switch weapons to a pistol, and deal out the same damage. In the wonderful world of videogames, you can take out a target at a thousand yards using your pistol when your sniper rifle runs out of ammo.

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